Erik-Peter Song Demo

Lovin You is More than I Could Hope For

A Place Called Earth

Divertimento in G-Allegro

I'll Keep Hanging on for Love

Erik-Peter Mortensen's "Love Takes a Little Time" is a song written to spec for Brad Hatfield's Berklee Online Music Course - "Songwriting for Film and TV" Final Project. It's designed to be a close (but yet different) replacement of the Supremes' "You Can't Hurry Love" for the temp song used in this "Alchemy" Montage Scene.

I've cut the song in what I feel is an ideal spot, though music editors may feel free to re-arrange my cut. It happens to be in the exact tempo, key, lyric vibe, and structure as "You Can't Hurry Love", which lends itself ideally to this cut as it begins and ends in the same key as the orchestrated bookend music!

This version is a draft and a version with a female lead is also planned to be completed within the next few days.

Let me know if you'd like to have access to the full song if you're part of the music supervisor final project at Berklee! You can also suggest tweaks if you'd like something different from what you hear! I'm reachable at ep@erik-peter.com

Cheers!

EP

Love Takes a Little Time
Composer: Erik-Peter Mortensen
Lyricist: E.P. Mortensen/William Meredith
 
My mother told me not to rush right into love. 
She said to take your time, be patient for a while. 
God only knows what heav'n might send you from above, 
but when you find it, Dear, it's sure to make you smile! 

Love takes a little time, but then it's so sublime. 
'Ain't no reason, 'ain't no rhyme, be ready when it comes! 

But I'm so lonely it hurts! I want to find somebody now!  
I need someone who will hold me close!  if I could only figure how!  

My Daddy let me know that finding love is tough. 
He said that what you need are iron nerves of steel. 
But when you find your love, the one that's good enough, 
You'll know it's worth the wait to have the real deal! 

Love takes a little time, and then it's so divine. 
'Ain't no reason, 'ain't no rhyme, be ready when love comes! 

I used to be so in love, I thought I found my one true love!  
But then I got me a broken heart! It's like my folks all used to say!  

Instrumental Interlude

(Get ready for some lovin'!)

My parents told me not to rush right into love. 
They said to take your time, be patient for a while. 
Lord only knows what heav'n could send you from above, 
but when you find your love, it's sure to make you smile! 

Love takes a little time, but then it's so sublime. 
'Ain't no reason, 'ain't no rhyme, be ready when it comes! 

Well I've been searching now all over this wide earth,
and now I've found the one to call my very own! 
Don't matter now how long it takes, for what it's worth, 
'cause when you find your love, it's heaven, I've been shown! 

(I'm tellin' ya!)

Love takes a little time, but then it's so sublime. 
'Ain't no reason, 'ain't no rhyme, be ready when it comes! 

Love takes a little time, and then it's so divine. 
'Ain't no reason, 'ain't no rhyme, be ready when love comes! 

(Be ready for some lovin'!)

'Cause love...
takes some time!  


Love Takes A Little Time - (Male Lead)

Hi, My name is Erik-Peter Mortensen (aka Erik or EP).  I've been singing professionally at the Met & City Opera's since 9, as well as in many professional choirs through the present.  I have a serious love for Early and Classical music and wish to make its appeal reach out to a much vaster audience, either through fusing it with existing styles, creating new styles, or promulgating it through films & games.

I'm currently studying for my Master Certificate in Orchestration for Film and TV, and I'll be posting more of my work right here as my studies continue and I go back to remaster previous work.

If anyone has cool collaboration ideas, please feel free to reach out to me! :-)